The top 7 best things to hear from this 2012.

Here's the top ten records of 2012 from my point of view. If you don't like music, then go away. It ranges from doom to hip-hop. It should be fast and I will throw a link on here to a band page or a youtube thing or something.

7 . High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis . It's raw. It's loud. It's rock and roll the way it should be played. I hope sobriety doesn't fuck up Matt Pike's edge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHgdJRNFa00
http://www.highonfire.net/

6 . Die Antwoord - Ten$ion . Look, if you don't enjoy people from south Africa rapping about being ghetto trash on top of fat techno beats, that's your own business. But THIS is the funnest record released in the last couple of years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIXUgtNC4Kc
http://www.dieantwoord.com/

5 . Caspian - Waking Season . really, really interesting post-rock that kind of sounds like someone was trying to make a soundtrack for paradise with a tinge of sadness. Layered so much that I still haven't busted through all of the levels. Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXG74jF6syA
http://caspianmusic.net/


4 . The Sword - Apocryphon . Riffs, riffs and more riffs. Songs about time travel, witches, ancient gods and all kinds of shit that metal should have. Also, this gets my award for best cover art of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZMX6h1WYEw
http://swordofdoom.com/

3 . El-P - Cancer for the Cure . This is the best hip-hop record that I have heard in around six years or so. The beats are fantastic and otherworldy, the rhyming is insultingly good and the production is second to none. Honestly, this could have been record of the year for me if these other two hadn't also dropped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZptOs8Gu9k
https://www.facebook.com/THEREALELP

Co - #1 . Ahab - The Giant . There is a point in meditation where you are supposed to reach Zen. This record is that for me. Each time I put this on, I get lost in it's sadness and how absolutely god damned heavy it is. Down tuned guitars played through one zillion watts of power, all pouring through your speakers like tar for your brain. Warning - this record is not for sissies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_POfe1ng8zE
http://www.ahab-doom.de/


Also #1 . If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest . If there was a way for a bunch of guitars to get together and tell the most emotional story possible, this album would be that story. Layered, thick, ethereal goodness. Rolling louds and softs. This is the kind of album that I listen to and think "man, these guys really love to play music." and you can tell. Everyone should check this out, no matter what kind of tunes that you generally dig on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-23TtDUcZBk
https://www.facebook.com/treescouldtalk


And there you go.
Now shut up and listen.